A network for audio–motor coordination in skilled pianists and non-musicians

Baumann, Sarah; Koeneke, Susan; Schmidt, Conny F.; Meyer, Martin; Lutz, Kai; Jäncke, Lutz

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2007.05.045

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“…Previous neurophysiological functional imaging and lesion studies have implicated the cerebellum and premotor cortex in the perception (22,24,25) and production (e.g., tapping in synchrony with musical rhythms) (26,27) of musical and in particular, rhythmic sequences. Activation in the dorsal premotor cortex was modulated by the metric structure of the auditory stimulus (27), subjects' cognitive set (e.g., motor imagery) (28), and their musical expertise (28,29). Furthermore, cerebellum and premotor cortex were involved in motor and perceptual timing, particularly at the millisecond range (12,(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35).…”

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Long-term music training tunes how the brain temporally binds signals from multiple senses

Lee

Noppeney

2011

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Practicing a musical instrument is a rich multisensory experience involving the integration of visual, auditory, and tactile inputs with motor responses. This combined psychophysics-fMRI study used the musician's brain to investigate how sensory-motor experience molds temporal binding of auditory and visual signals. Behaviorally, musicians exhibited a narrower temporal integration window than nonmusicians for music but not for speech. At the neural level, musicians showed increased audiovisual asynchrony responses and effective connectivity selectively for music in a superior temporal sulcus-premotor-cerebellar circuitry. Critically, the premotor asynchrony effects predicted musicians' perceptual sensitivity to audiovisual asynchrony. Our results suggest that piano practicing fine tunes an internal forward model mapping from action plans of piano playing onto visible finger movements and sounds. This internal forward model furnishes more precise estimates of the relative audiovisual timings and hence, stronger prediction error signals specifically for asynchronous music in a premotor-cerebellar circuitry. Our findings show intimate links between action production and audiovisual temporal binding in perception.audiovisual synchrony | multisensory integration | sensorimotor learning | crossmodal integration | experience-dependent plasticity P racticing a musical instrument is a rich multisensory experience involving the integration of visual, auditory, and tactile inputs with motor responses. The musician's brain, thus, provides an ideal model to study experience-dependent plasticity in humans (1, 2).Previous research in musicians has focused on neural plasticity affecting unisensory and motor processing. Little is known about how musical expertise alters the integration of inputs from multiple senses. Because musical performance requires precise timing, musical expertise may specifically modulate the temporal binding of sensory signals. Given the variability in physical and neural transmission times, sensory signals do not have to be precisely synchronous but must co-occur within a temporal window that flexibly adapts to the temporal statistics of the sensory inputs as a consequence of music (3) or audiovisual training (4). At the neural level, audiovisual (a)synchrony processing relies on a widespread neural system encompassing subcortical, primary sensory, higher-order association, cerebellar, and premotor areas (5-8).This study used the musician's brain as a model to investigate how long-term sensory-motor experience (i.e., piano practicing) shapes the neural processes underlying temporal binding of auditory and visual signals. We presented subjects with synchronous and asynchronous speech and piano music as two stimulus classes that are both characterized by a rich hierarchical temporal structure but linked to different motor effectors (mouth vs. hand). Comparing the effect of musical expertise on synchrony perception of speech and music allowed us to dissociate generic and context-specific neural mechanisms ...

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Long-term music training tunes how the brain temporally binds signals from multiple senses

Lee

Noppeney

2011

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Thus, the coupling between auditory input and motor output increases during motor training, and the functional connectivity between the auditory cortex and motor cortex might increase accordingly. It has been found that for musicians with strong motor skills, cortical reorganization occurs not only in motor areas, but also in auditory areas (Baumann et al, 2007). For instance, Baumann et al (2007) studied audio-motor coordination networks in pianists and non-musicians during a silent piano performance and while listening to piano sound.…”

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“…It has been found that for musicians with strong motor skills, cortical reorganization occurs not only in motor areas, but also in auditory areas (Baumann et al, 2007). For instance, Baumann et al (2007) studied audio-motor coordination networks in pianists and non-musicians during a silent piano performance and while listening to piano sound. The authors found that both groups showed concurrent activation in the secondary auditory cortex (e.g., planum temporale), secondary motor cortex (e.g., premotor cortex and SMA), and high-order motor planning regions (e.g., IPL).…”

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The influence of motor expertise on the brain activity of motor task performance: A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies

Yang

2014

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Previous research has investigated the influence of long-term motor training on the brain activity of motor processes, but the findings are inconsistent. To clarify how acquiring motor expertise induces cortical reorganization during motor task performance, the current study conducted a quantitative meta-analysis on 26 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies that investigate motor task performance in people with long-term motor training experience (e.g., athletes, musicians, and dancers) and control participants. Meta-analysis of the brain activation in motor experts and novices showed similar effects in the bilateral frontal and parietal regions. The meta-analysis on the contrast between motor experts and novices indicated that experts showed stronger effects in the left inferior parietal lobule (BA 40) than did novices in motor execution and prediction tasks. In motor observation tasks, experts showed stronger effects in the left inferior frontal gyrus (BA 9) and left precentral gyrus (BA 6) than novices. On the contrary, novices had stronger effects in the right motor areas and basal ganglia as compared with motor experts. These results indicate that motor experts have effect increases in brain areas involved in action planning and action comprehension, and suggest that intensive motor training might elaborate the motor representation related to the task performance.

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“…Music increases not only well-being, attention span and neuropsychological performance but also promotes plastic changes in the motor cortex [64][65][66][67][68]. Mozart's music (K.448) has an anti-epileptic effect in comatose patients [69].…”

Section: Archivos De Medicina Issn 1698-9465 Journal Of Neurology Andmentioning

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Neurologic Music Therapy to Facilitate Recovery from Complications of Neurologic Diseases

Bahrami¹,

Thomas²,

Bahrami³

et al. 2017

J Neurol Neurosci

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Neurologic music therapy (NMT) has fostered recovery from complications in patients suffering from a wide variety of neurologic diseases. Combining music and virtual reality with standard rehabilitation therapies can improve patient compliance and make therapy more enjoyable. Listening to music can reduce epileptiform discharges and enhances brain plasticity. Music produces variations in brain anatomy between musicians and non-musicians. Music therapy is an inexpensive intervention to help post-stroke patients to recover faster and more efficiently if applied soon after the event. There is evidence that incorporating music into a rehabilitation program fosters recovery of hand function, dexterity, spatial movement, cognitive function, mood, coordination, stride length and memory. Learning words as lyrics, melodic intonation therapy and singing can help the aphasic patient to recover faster. NMT therapists are valuable members of the rehabilitation team. NMT has been approved by the World Rehabilitation Federation as an effective evidence based method of treatment.

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A network for audio–motor coordination in skilled pianists and non-musicians

Cited by 208 publications

References 86 publications

Long-term music training tunes how the brain temporally binds signals from multiple senses

Long-term music training tunes how the brain temporally binds signals from multiple senses

The influence of motor expertise on the brain activity of motor task performance: A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies

Neurologic Music Therapy to Facilitate Recovery from Complications of Neurologic Diseases

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